Hi,

I must disagree due to intended languages as COBOL or FORTRAN. They are
absolutely inappropriate for that project. I would suggest INTERCAL, as a
superior language for that choice. As illustration, I insert here a small
random number generator taken from the Intercal distribution package.

        DO (1900) NEXT
        DO READ OUT .1
        PLEASE GIVE UP
(1900)  DO STASH .2 + .3
        DO .3 <- #65535
        DO (1903) NEXT
(1903)  PLEASE FORGET #1
        DO .2 <- #0
        PLEASE %50 IGNORE .2
        DO .2 <- #1
        PLEASE REMEMBER .2
        DO .1 <- !1$.2'~"#65535$#1"
        DO .3 <- .3~#65534
        DO (1902) NEXT
        DO (1903) NEXT
(1902)  DO (1904) NEXT
        DO RETRIEVE .2 + .3
        DO FORGET #1
        PLEASE RESUME #1
(1904)  PLEASE RESUME '?"!3~.3'~#1"$#1'~#3

As one can see, it gives the most clearest structure and such way due to
the very short project deadline this is the once tool you can use.

And a remark: there is no Intercal compiler for PIC, though. But it is
absolutely no problem, as Intercal produces C output and the compilation
can be done by the (almost) free compiler of HiTech or whatever you
choose.

Regards and merry Xmas:

Imre